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I got to Korea Christmas day 1950, No Christmas dinner there, peanut butter sand, cold coffee. 3rd bat 7th Just got out of Kotare and moved to nesaun we landed at Pusan from a Japanese ship, Christmas eve spent from...

L/Cpl R. W. Hoffman, and all of Charlie 1/13 who missed their hot turkey Christmas dinner. As one of those tasked with bringing your hot chow to the field, I apologize for missing you. It’s a pretty good bet that...

FNG stories, we all have one, what is yours. Here’s mine. I got to Nam March 3, 1969 along with Goog, Hunts and Kelly. (now Ret. SgtMaj Kelly) The four of us remained the FNG’s past June ’69. Towards the...

It is my sad duty to inform the many readers of his stories over the years, that GySgt Frank Rousseau has passed away. He was a 3-war Marine, but I knew him as a Bermuda marine. We all enjoyed his...

Prior to going on a med cruise as BLT-2/6. We made a demonstration landing at Onslow Beach N.C. for President Kennedy and the Shaw of Iran and after landing and marching along the sandy beach past the reviewing stand guess...

Sgt. Grit, Remember in boot camp the scrub brush and the soapy water and the tables we scrubbed our clothes on. Some guys did this in Camp Geiger too! I went home after Camp Geiger on a bus from North...

I was in the Corps from 91-98, and in ’03 I joined the Army Reserve, and in ’05, I went active duty Army and got shipped off to Korea. Well, I’m out of the Army now due to a torn...

Sgt. Grunt, I sure enjoy this newsletter. I have two stories to tell. First- I joined the Corps in July 1950, when I was 18. I was in Plt. 33 MCRDSD we had about 10 di’s altogether because Korea had...

Camp LeJeune (2nd Mar. Div) – 1949 – cleaning my BAR – lost it on forward slope of a hill March 2, 1951 courtesy incoming mortar fire. Went over the wall at Inchon Sept. 15, 1950 … served under Lewis...